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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
The Dark Side Of Dakota.

''No market, no fuel, no water, no
fruit, no demand for labor" These are
enumerated by Kimball Oak.) cores
pondent Of Farm and Fircsidc as disad-
vantagcs Of that part of the Territory,
which land-agents and railroad specula-
tors have lauded to the detriment OF
many restless people who were induced
to leave comparatively comfortable
homes at the East: "a four years resi-
dence here has enabled me to speak ad-
visedly, and when said that not ono
who came here and depended on farm
ing for an income but has gone down
hill, speak the simple truth; those who
came full-hornded and loaned their
money, or invested it in stock, or went
back to some reservation or isolated
place and escaped taxation, have made
money. Crops are short and prices low.
Wheat, five to fifteen bushels per acre,
40 to 48 cents; oats, fifteen to thirty
five bushels, Is to 1s cents; corn of pre-
vious years fair, but most of it FROST
bitten; fax, four to ten bushels per acre,
80 to 90 cents per bushel; milk, no sale;
butter, cents per pound; eggs, cents
per dozen; live stock, 1-2 to ala
cents per pound. Now look on the other
side: Soft coal, S. per ton; hard, $1S;
dried fruits, 8 to 20 cents per pound,
owing to quality and kind. The high
price of fuel has driven even well-to-do
people to the use of hay, corn-stalks,
flax-straw, and through the summer
season almost all residing in the rural
districts have used cow-chips, which is a
polite name for dry COW dung, for fuel.
Add to this third of mans time for
hauling water, and your readers will
have something Of a correct idea Of the
inconvenience and expenses of living in
new country. might add that, with
rare exceptions, it is impossible for 0
laboring man to get employment"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
HUMOROUS.

The surest way to raise pigs is BY tho
tails.
Speaking of anima Is, what does the
catamount to2
Why do people say 'slip up" when
man always slips down .
The pugilist is the modern shylock.
He is always seeking pound Of flesh.
An unsteady man like an unsteady
light, is apt to 60 out nights.
Although not talkativc at all, tho oys-
ter is very pleasant companion at din
| ner.
The barber generally manages to make
living, even if he is always working at
cut rates.
Scientists believe it impossible for q
man to have a double. If this is 80 how
can man be beside himselfa
A correspondent says all foreigners in
St. Petersburg are treated in the 'most
curt and disdainiul manner"
A railway from Chicago direct to tho
City of Mexico is projected. With .
few more additional facilities for leaving
the city life in Chicago will become bear
able.
Merchant to his clerk-1 am sorry I
cannot let you have your last months
salary to-day, but since, as you very
we'll know, time is money, will give
you months vacation.
Hungry Guest: ''How is thisl or
dercd steak and a poachcd egg. lses
the egg, but where is the steakT Table
attendant: "Dat's all right sab. Do
steak am under dc egg"
1t is astonishing how much scorn, iu-
dignation and contempt woman can
put into two words. II you do not be-
licvc it just listen while she speaks Of
some one she dislikcs as "that man."
"Thcrc is moro pleasure in giving
than in receiving" was the proverb
mother was trying to instill into youth
full mind. "That's true about castor
oil, mother" was the answer she got.
''Do you have damp sheetsi' said tho
fussy old man at the hotel, securing .
room. NO." said tho clerk, who want
cd to be obliging, "but we can sprinkle
'em for you if you like them that way"
Hc-T beg your pardon, miss, but I
don't admire your last name" She
"Grcat heavens, man, haven't I done
everything in my power to change
it? Must I knock man down with
club"
"Comc in, my poor man," said ABE
ncvolent lady to ragged tramp, land !
will get you something to eat"
Thank, mum, don't care if I do" ."
suppose" continued the lady, setting .
a square meal before him, ''your life has
been full of trials7" "Yis, mum; an tho
wust Of it WIZ, allus got convicted"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Money in Mud.

"You will never have clean streets In
America" said an Italian gentleman in
the Colonnade hotel Yesterday, ''as long
as you throw away tho dirt. In Italy
the cleaning of the streets is sold to tho
highest bidder at public auction, and
the man who gets the contract fairly
scrapcs the streets to collect all the dirt
he can. It's then taken to factory,
where it is pressed into blocks which ars
then sold for fcrtilizing purposes. You
Americans do not seem to know that
your street dirt is valuable. / think IL
you would advertise you would fnd
some smart man who would be glad to
take a ten years. contract to clean your
streets for nothing. He would get very
rich. ."-[Philadelphia Call.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Rights OF the Blind In Streets.

The full bench OF the Supreme Court
has just sent down rcscript in the case
of ]. w. Smith VS.. Wildes ct al. The
plaintiff, blind man, was walking down
Bromfield street and fell down hatch
way left open by defendants. He brought
suit and recovered damages. The defen.
dants excepted, but the exceptions have
now been ovcrruled on the ground that
it can't be laid down as a universal rule
that it would be negligence for blind
man to walk the streets of Boston uuat
tended. II Boston Traveller.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
A Strange Experimeut.

King james Nv. of Scotland is said to
have ordered an experiment to be carried
out which must be regarded as one of
the strangest ever recorded. With q
view to learn what was the original hui
man language, he had dumb woman
lodged on the Isle of Inchkeith, in the
Firth of Forth, and two infants entrust-
ed to her care. Oddly enough, the
result was considered satisfactory. for in
due course it was found that they spoke
"very good Hebrew r'-T Little Folks.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
The Peasant and the Robbcr.

A peasant who was growing fno
crop of barley awokc one morning to
find that the flood had entered his field
and destroyed every stalk Of his grain.
Thereupon he began to tear his hair and
lament, but a stranger who came along
tapped him on the shoulder and said:
'Harkee, my friend, but you do not
know of what you complain. Had your
barley come to maturity and been sent
to market, I should have waylald and
robbed you Of every dollar of tho pro.
ceeds." Whatever happens is for the
best, even when the neighbor's COW eats
up our cabbages. = Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Meaning Of "Sublime Porte."

A phrase often seen in dispatches from
Constantinoplc is thus explained by NJ.
Julliard in his article on "Life Beneath
the Crescent" in the Cosmopolitan:
The building of the porte, called sub
lime, is, or was, kind of long, low
barracks, without style and without
beauty. A fire destroyed part of it three
years ago.
The phrase Sublime porto" applied
to both the building and the admins
tration, two things that arc important, but
neither the one nor the other is sublime.
This word has, however, a very ancient
origin. When the Turks, long before
the conquest, we're only hordes Of Tar
tars and nomads, their chiefs or sultans
were in the habit of dispensing justice
at the door of their tent. There the
cadis assembled and heard tho CON-
plant and then the defense. The sultan
appeared upon the spot only at the con-
clusion of the trial to get the opinions
of the judges and to render his decision.
To 60 to the porte was for the Turks
the equivalent of seeking Justice at the
hands of the sultan and his counselors.
As to the pompous epithet sublime, f"
coupled with this poor porte, it is one
of those Oriental speeches that the lattcry
of the weak has bestowed voluntarily upon
the tyranny of the strong. The Turkish
language abounds in these qualifcativcs
--highness, excellence, divine, celestial,
which in our day and in the
West offend the dignity of those that
receive them, and of those that bcstow
them, but which one in the East can
freely bcstow upon high personages
without laughing or making them laugh.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
WHY We Butter Bread.

DR.. John G. Vandervcer, in the course
of a lecture on Food aud Stimu ants, :"
delivered in Brooklyn, said: Although
bread contains an abundance of starchy
and albuminous matters, it is deficient
in fat. This is why our instinct leads
us to use butter or some other fatty ma
terial to make up the deficiency. Very
few Of my hearers, venture to say, ever
looked at it in this light before. Butter
is generally considered luxury. 1t is
an absolute necessity.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
PRICE THREE CENTS.
lam Great and You ore Small.

Asparrow swinging on branch
Once caught passing fly;
"Oh let me livel" the insect prayed,
With trembling, piteous cry.
'No," "said the sparrow, ',you must fall,
For am great and you are small"
The bird had scarce begun his feast
Before hawk came by;
The game was caught "Pray lot ms livsr
Was now the sparrow's cry.
''No. said the captor, ''you must fall,
For I am great and you are small"
An eagle saw tho rogue and swoopsd
Upon him from on high;
"Pray let me live; why should you kill
So small bird as II"
"Oh," said tho eagle, "you must fall,
For am great and you are small"
But while he at, the hunter came:
He let his arrow fly.
"Tyrant" the eagle shrieked, '.you have
No rigkt to make me die!"
"Ah," said the hunter, ''you must fall,
For am great and you are small"
-lFro the German
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
OF and On.

''Why do you desire to leave mcf'
said gentleman to his footman.
Because. to speak the truth, | cannot
bear your tom ,er"
'To be sure am passionate, but my
passion is no sooner on than it's off,"
Yes" replied the servant. ''But it;
no sooner off than It's on"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
A Forerunner Of Disaster.

A bright looking young woman in ono
of the fashionable dry goods stores told
me she never. if she could possibly help
it, sells au article to a person who had
lost a front tooth, as it is always fore
runner of disaster to her. Il always get
son of the other girls who are not
superstitious to wait on such people, 7" shs
said. Chicago Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
A Timely Suggestion.

"Hello, Richelieul You don't call on
Miss Dilby any more--something upa"
Eyes, Arthur, l confess it--there isl
Why, don't you know / stayed little
late the other night, and dash me if she
didn't get up and wind the clocki"--
rDetroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
An Experienced Cook.

Lady-"Have you had much expert.
ence as cook2'
Applicant--"O, indeed l have. 1 was
the cook of Mr.. and Mrs. Petcrby for
three years"
"Why did you leave theml'
81 didn't leave them. They left me.
They both dicd".
"What off,
Dyspepsia. ia."-lSiftings.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Two Pictures.

With dimpled hands folded on heaving
breast
She is lying asleep.
Dreaming of pleasures and love and gold,
Careless of sorrows that life may hold
With sweet lips smiling in perfect rest,
She is lying asleep.
H.
With faded hands folded on quiet breast
She is lying asleep.
Pleasures and love and joy all past,
Sorrows OF life over at last
With pale lips closed in eternal rest,
She is lying asleep.
-CHAs. F. SCOTT in the Current
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER.

a-Entered at the Post-ofice at South
Londonderry, as second.class matter.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15
7. REINHARDT e. 90.
736. 7:3S and 74O ELM STREET, DALLAS. TEXAS

Bile 10 prove it. His bond was forfeit
ed and search instituted which failed
to reveal any trace of the accused.
Willis, the last of the desperate out
law gang Of Connor's, was shot and
killed about ten miles south of Hempe
hill. A posse followed Connor's ten.
year-old grandson, who was carrying
dinner to his grandfather, and order
ed Connor to urrender. He replied
with three shots and Immediately a
general fusilade began in which tbr
boy and old man were both killed.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15
Justice Court

Two civil suits were filed before
Justice Braswell this morning, as fol-
lows:
Frank j. Smith VS.. E. d. Douthitt,
suit on note for $3.50.
w. f. Standiford vs.. New York In
surancc Company. suit OH conditional
receipt for $70.43.
Three criminal cases are docketed
tor trial before Justice Braswell to.
morrow morning.
Recorders Court.
The recorders docket was not 80
heavy this morning as on yesterday
The following cases were disposed OF:
One case of vagrancy, continued.
One case of aggravated assault and
batter on wife against j. Ii. Cooper,
transferred.
One case of aggravated assault and
battery on daughter against same
party, transferred.
One case for abusive language, fined
$40 and costs.
One case for resisting officer, fined
$40 and costs.
One case Tor obstructing sewer, ver-
dict of not guilty.
Three cases of intoxicatior in each
fine of SIS and costs was assessed.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15

the capitol board meets at Austin
IN esday to transact important
siness.
d. p. Lowry, a hardware dealer st
Rockwall, was attached yesterday for
$4S7O'47.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany is making exertions 10 extend it,
line into Goliad.
A Texarkana member of the demi-
monde took the strychnine route at
rihat place last evening.
IL. Studemaun, merchant aud
prominent citizen of La Grange, died
at Schulenburg yesterday evening.
The residence of Ed Tutt at Gle
burne burned Yesterday. The loss
was $2S04, and only $1075 insurance.
A boy fell from the top of the
water tower at Taylor yesterday,
seventy feet, and sustained fatal injur-
les.
j. N. Bell. Paris grocery man,
failed yesterday for $4,000, with as
acts, it is said, sufficient to exec { all
bj@itios.
The reports Of so much lawlessness
in Kinney county, District Judge
Kelso says, are untrue and in many
cases exaggerated
Grand Bros, have purchased the
Pacific Hotel at Waco and hereafter
the Pacific and New Mcclellan will be
under one management
Waco cotton receipts to date this
season loot up 21.295 bales. II is esti-
timated that Waco's receipts will be
$4,000 bales short OF last seasons.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15

Ten bridge companies are represent
ed before the commissioners of Nc
Lehman county for the construction. of
the bridge across the Brazos. The
contract is to be awarded to-day.
The Austins and New York Giants
entered bat and ball contest at Aus
tin yesterday. The game was close.
sanding to in favor of the Aus
tins.
Greenvjlle lost her fine co ton COM
press yesterday by fire. Twenty-Five
hundred bales Of cotton we're con-
sumed in the fire. The total loss is
estimated at $l50,00O. The compr. 81
was insured for about three-four,hs
its value.
An old man, past sixty, was mur-
dered at his post OF duty W lie attend
ing the water tank at Mcneil on the
Cotton Belt road, thirty miles east OF
Texarkana vecinity. The deed is sup
posed to have been committed by
tramps whose object was robbery.
The transcript in the case OF Dan
May. convicted in the district court at
Houston of murder in the first de-
.ree, was forwarded yesterday to the
court of appeals at TYLER. Mays
punishment is assessed a, death ia the
lower court, and If the verdict is sus
tanned sentence wi be passed upon
him at the coming December term.
A case OH the criminal docket was
called at Waco yesterday when defen
dants attorney arose and read letter
signed by The defendant in which he
stated that he was on his way TO the
Bosque river and would drown him
SELF because he was innocent but una
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15
THE COURTS.
District Court.

District court convened as usual
this morning. Nearly all cases called
were reset for hearing at p. IN.
A number of cases called in district
court to-day have be reset and many
discontinued, among which are some
-ot the noted swindling cases wherein
Sims, Hought, Taylor etals are deten-
daats. At three o'clock this af;er-
no trial had been entered, but four
cases called had been reset or contin-
ued.
In the Duck Creek Embree case
writs of attachment have been issued
against all the parties who held the in
junction order Of the court in con-
tempt. Judge Aldrige will hear the
case next Friday.
Tomorrow is expected to be busy
day in district court from the fact that
six cases transferred to this court
from Ellis county are on docket for
trial. About year ago in Ellis county
six indictments were found against
one Wash Boren for theft of cattle.
He was tried in one of the cases and
convicted. The case was appealed
and then reversed and remanded.
Alter being returned to the lower
court for new trial Boren succeeded
in citing change of venue from
Ellis TO Dallas county, and all six Of
the cases are set for tomorrow Not
less than one hundred attached wit
nesses will be in attendance at the
trials.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15

County criminal court has been
grinding away this morning, and in
nine cases against George Waller for
unlawfully selling beer on Sunday a
verdict of not guilty was rendered in
each case.
In the case of Chas. Burney, charged
with theft of two silver dollars, ver-
dict of not guilty was returned.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15
TO FIGHT ANARCHY.
Patriotism and Christianity to
Organize and Save Our
Country.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. l4.-The
Evangelical Society, composed Of the
ministers of all the churches in this
city, at meeting held to-day deplored
the "impending perils of anarchism
socialism, ultramontanism, infidelity,
Sabbath breaking and intemperence,"
and promised all possible aid to "ef-
forts to combine the patriotism and
Christianity Of our country in taking
measures to save ii from those threat
ening its destruction" They approx
ed the plan of proposed national COR
vention at Washington, ID. G., to con
slider these questions, and appointed
delegates to attend it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15

A. Z. Bouche, the Main street grocer, nas
ust added splendid refrigerator, II which
he has always the freshest country butter,
eggs and fresh Fleischman's yeast, which is
kent as cold as can be-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-19
Restored to Settlement.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The secretary
of the interior to-day revoked the order
of withdrawal of indemnity lands for the
benefit of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad
company, and in long letter to the
commissioner of the general land Office,
directed that they may. be restored to
settlement under the presumption and
homestead laws. 1t is stated that be-
tween %, OOO, 900 and $4,000, 600 acres are
involved in this decision in the case of
the Atlantic & Pacific company alone.
The order also applies to all ofthe other
railroads named in the secretary's rules
of May % last, except the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba, the Hastings
Dakota, the st. Paul & Pacific, the St.
Paul & Sioux City, the Sioux City & St.
Paul, and the Winona & st. Peter. These
are still under consideration and unde.
cided.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-19

THE elections this fall, while occurring
in what is termed in political parIance
an "off year." will prove of much inter.
est, preceding as they do the National
struggle of 1888. Elections will be held
this year in Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee,
Oregon, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylva.
mia. The results of the recent contests
in Kentucky and Texas, where the enor.
nous Democratic majorIties heretofore
recorded have been cut down to a mere
pittance, fill the Republicans with q
good deal of hope that the Solid South
may be shattered next year, and has ad-
ded strength and confidence to the par
ty in Virginia and other doubtful States.
When such an ultra Bourbon as Henri
Watterson, of the Louisville Courier
Journal, who has looked upon Republi-
can efforts in Kentucky heretofore with
hooking playfulness, asserts, after the
recent contest in that State, that the
Republican party can no longer be
treated with indifference, it means that
he observes a weakening of the South
ern solidity which, if not attended to
with the usual shotgun policy and bal
lot stufing, will surely getaway from the
party which has 30 long held it in line
by methods of the vilest sort. The con-
test in Ohio will result in the reelection
Of Foraker by good round majority,
while Iowa is safe beyond doubt. New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, Iowa and
Pennsylvania elect legislatures, with mi
Massachusetts, and Maryland. The out
look for Republican success in all these
States is unusually promising, and quite
assured in most Of them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-19
SAFETY OF HALFWAY CARS.

As matter Of course the Chatswortn
horror has revived the newspaper talk
about the reform which should be made
to secure the safety ef railroad cars. AT
ter each appalling accident which ever
and anon startles the people, the agita-
ton in favor of safer construction OF
railway carriages has for time fresh
impetus, but as the horror caused by the
accident wears of, interest In the SUBJ
iect relaxes, and little good appears to
result. 1t would seem that this lack OF
improvement in the safety Of cars can
not because state Of perfection has
been reached, for outside of the fact that
modern coaches are more elegant and
luxurious, there has been but really lit
tie change in their construction for many
years.
Some experiments have been made IN
the direction of constructing cars Of iron,
but the question of practibility is still
unsettled. In the Meigs elevated rail-
way system, for the construction OF
which stock company has been incor-
porated in Massachusetts,, the passenger
coaches are made of heavy boiler iron
riyeted together in tubular form. The
cars resemble immense boilers set on
wheels, with openings for windows alonS
the sides, and for doors at he'ends. In
side they are upholstered all around
with row of double seats through the
center and single seats running length
, wise on both sides. They are perfec
drawing-roomsin point Of elegance. AnC
, the builder claims that the cost of con
, struction is much less than of the ordi
nary wooden car.
The presumption certainly is that in
collision, or other form of accident, tn
{ tubular iron coach would stand the shoe
s much better than q wooden structure
y The veriest tyro in mechanics under
e stands that the tube possesses a create
# degree of strength than can be given :
It any other form of the same weight an
s quality of material. Some enthusiast
has dared to think that the time is CON
ing when tubular iron bridges will spa
Q the streams, supported by piers of tn
i same form and material, and possibly i
q the same line of progress and invention
= the cars that dash across those bridges
n such tremendous speed will be similarl
e constructed. In any event railway mai
2 ayers can not sit still thinking they hay
= got the best, for they have much to
~ vet to lessen the dangers of travel.